> -----Original Message----- > From: Hemmann, Volker Armin > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:58 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question > > > On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, Dale wrote: > > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > > On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three > > >> install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar > before moving > > >> on from there. After that, I can just make sure to > watch the FAQ's > > >> and walkthroughs when I install Xorg to make sure that I do it > > >> right. ^_^ > > > > > > why? there is no need to do that. emerge -u --newuse > world would be > > > much more 'interessting'. Btw, an deep world update > ruined most of > > > my weekend... don't do --deep if you don't have to. > > > > Funny, I sync every few days or so and always do a emerge > -uvD world. > > I have less problems with that than just doing a -u world. > > > > Maybe it is when you do things consistantly that keeps things going > >well > > and are you doing revdep-rebuilt afterwards? > > Last time gwenviev and kipi stuff broke, krita broke and some > other stuff. > Krita did not emerge because of some changed symbols, so I > had to reemerge > koffice-libs - something revdep-rebuild did not catch. It > catches changed > versions, but if a lib is recompiled because of an -r update > and there are > symbol problems, revdep will not see them... > I had to rebuild kdepim and a lot of other stuff, just > because of that -D > update. It sucks to have to revdep-rebuild a douzend > packages. It suckes even > more when half of them fail because of some symbols and you > have to reemerge > three or four additional libs, so you can't just let it run > unattended... > > In my years of gentoo, -D always caused problems and was > almost never worth > the trouble. > --
I am glad I am asking questions now, and not after doing something dumb. :P I could SOOO mess things up on a new box. ^_^ ;-) I think the keyword of the day will be planning! ^_^ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
